re: Why are Ohio State fans directing attention to the SEC instead of Urban Meyer?

They have conspiracy theories about the NCAA, ESPN, and the SEC being tied together

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Penn State’s situation was far worse and now look where they are.

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Too be fair, JoPa died and it took a lot of wind out of the NCAA's sails. Maybe if CUM has a real heart attack it will cool off the same way. In the meantime, look for CUM to fake another heart problem and wind up in the ACC or PAC.

CUM is a bad hombre

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They hit em pretty hard

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Initially

When JoPa dies and Franklin took the reigns the NCAA did a 180 and let them off at a greatly reduced penalty and now they are competitive again.

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When JoPa dies and Franklin took the reigns

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Joe Pa died in January of 2012.
The NCAA announced the punishment in July of 2012

The NCAA reversed its decision in January of 2015

Ohio State is fine

I have chatted about this SEC/ESPN conspiracy and here is what they can not answer. ESPN is about ratings, and the Big 10 has more populated states, so there bias is naturally towards the Big 10 and Pac 12. SEC states are mostly rural, just not as big of a tv market and it makes no sense for espn to favor these states. In fact since the start of sec network, espn has been covering less sec on their main networks talk shows, such as college football live, and have been focusing more on Big 10 and Pac 12. This makes sense because they know the SEC is being covered in depth on one of their networks already.

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ESPN is about ratings, and the Big 10 has more populated states, so there bias is naturally towards the Big 10 and Pac 12. S

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No it isn’t.
The Big Ten and PAC 12 have Television contracts with fox.
All of their Marquee games as well as their conference title game is on Fox.
The SEC has its own channel that is owned by ESPN.

To be fair, a little history lesson

For the 50's, 60's, and 70's the NCAA was a dictatorship run by a man who clearly favored the B1G and PAC. When the Sooners and Dawgs went to the Supreme Court the only 2 conferences (and we had many more back then) to not cross the line were B1G and PAC schools.

ESPN was started by a B1G alum (IU if memory serves) and was staffed early on by ACC grads.

Historically the NCAA and ESPN had their collective brown noses firmly up the B1G's backside. For them to not claim the opposite is pretty funny indeed.

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Ohio State fans are unhealthily obsessed with the SEC

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41-14 will do that to you.

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Other than CBS game of the week and the conference title game it’s a Pro SEC network (for football season)

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The terms of the Pac12 abc/Fox contract are not public but clearly espn does get 2nd choice of Pac 12 games, and ESPN owns the right to "essentially half" of the Big 10's games and Fox the other half. The games that are shown on the conference networks end up being the games nobody chooses and go there by default. CBS has first choice of SEC games, and conference games. Fox has Pac 12 and their ccg,and also the Big 10. ACCCG is on ABC, so espn onws the acc championship game, and will own the acc network. So if you wish to argue that espn favors the sec to help promote it network that will show such amazing games as Mizzou vs Vandy, then go ahead, but that argument is weak af.